NEW VIDEO: Suspect steals 2 police cruisers in wild multi-county chase

Orlando, Fla. — Cocoa police have identified the suspect they said stole two Cocoa Police Department cruisers and led officers on a wild chase across two counties in the height of rush hour.

Xavier Cummings, 33, is being held in the Volusia County Jail on two counts of grand theft of a motor vehicle, two counts of grand theft of a firearm, escape as well as other charges.

The chase caught on a Volusia County sheriff’s helicopter video began when Cocoa police responded to a report of a disturbance near a Cocoa motel on Thursday afternoon.

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Investigators said when officers confronted Cummings, he jumped into an unattended patrol car and drove away.

Several Cocoa police officers then pursued Cummings on Interstate 95 into Volusia County before forcing the stolen cruiser off the road and into the woods between Edgewater and New Smyrna Beach.

When officers moved in to arrest Cummings, he emerged from the stolen patrol car armed with a pepper spray canister and jumped into another Cocoa Police K-9 Department vehicle, police said.

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